Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-21
BOILED INFORMATION.

LIGHTNING rang Gn6 nro Dell In Ill
mira, N. Y, the other night.
In Salt Lake City, Utah, green corn
sells at 20 cents per dozen ears.
PIERRE wants Fort Sully removed
to within few miles of the city.
THE population of Great Britain is
increasing at the rate of 1000 day.
The jubilee decorations OF West
minister Abbey we're sold for $4,000.
Docs are said to kill over $5,OOO,-
900 worth Of sheep annually in Tex
as.
A 1,4OO-PoUND grizzly bear was
killed a few days ago near Baker City,
Ore.
THE Post-office Department does
not recognize the title of "postmis-
tress."
ALTHOUGH Kingston, n. Y. has
population of 25, 500 it has no police
force.
ONE San Francisco firm cleared 49,
900, 900 on it's salmon operations this
season.
AN Indian whipped a white man in
q prize fight at sissons, CAL, few
days ago.
AN Iowa lad of sixteen, named, AL
len Harp, shot himself over the grave
OF q pet dog.
WHILE necessity is the mother of in
vention, poverty is the father OF many
children.
THE Conemaugh penny school
board balloted 381 times for teacher,
but in vain.
THE head of the Sultan's harem is
now 8 Christian woman, beautiful,
cultivated and Spaniard.
A HORSE railway company on Staten
Island is so poor that the superin-
tendent has to drive car.
JOHN MORLEY, has been the guest of
Andrew Carnegie at the latter's resi-
dence in Perthshire.
AT Ocean Grove, New York lady is
coming money by teaching the art OF
walking at 81 per lesson.
THERE are only three Japanese wait
ers in New York City, and for that
matter, in this country.
II ia now CON puted that the MAORI
ty against prohibition in Texas will
foot up 100000 votes.
The New York Christian at work is
printed on the presses that work off
the detachable Police Gazette.
AN exhibition of caricatures, from
the beginning or the present century
to date, will soon be held in Paris.
THERE is about to be exhibited in
Chicago a panorama entitled "Jeru-
salem on the Day of the Crucifxion."
THERE are 5000 shooting and deer
forests in Scotland, which afford con-
slant employment to about 5000
men.
A MAN-FATING shark, eight feet long
and with teeth half an nch In length,
has just been captured at St. Johns,
n. 3.
THE photograph" has been invent
ed, by which g. person can improvise
on g. piano and have the music re-
corded.
ONE OF the strongest men in Boston
is knife-grinder, who recently picked
up sick horse and carried it to it's
owners stable.
Four hundred acres of land in Cali
fornia have been purchased by party
of Japanese, who think OF converting
it into q tea farm.
OF party of twenty-five Topolo-
bampo colonlsts who arrived at San
Diego, CAL, few days since, several
were absolutely in rags.
ACCORDING to the Journal of Health,
the human brain reaches it's greatest
weight and development between the
ages of IA and 20.
PHOTOGRAPHY, as a business, it is
stated, now engages about II, 900
persons In this country, an increase of
about so per cent. since 1870.
COUNTERFEIT dollars are numerous
about Findlay, O. They are of good
workmanship, and hard to detect, as
the weight is about right.
IT is reported that parties in Kan
sas and Dakota are engaged in rails
ing bufalos for market, and that the
business promises to be profitable.
LIGHTNING from g. thunder cloud
struck g. big electric railway dynamo
in New York on Thursday and
knocked all the electricity out of the
machine.
A PAPER in Crete, Neb., prints the
that the pastor of the
Congregational Church will not preach
for g. month under the heading "Bully,
If True"
FASHIONABLE ladies now surround
themselves with sweet doors by pour
ing one or two drops of perfume into
their ears instead of scenting their
or hands.
A WOMAN in Brooklyn managed to
secure $4,000 by mortgaging to
twenty-six different persons her $500
worth of furniture, and squandered
the money on the races.
THE Salvation Army people say
that captains are seldom left In one